PSYCHO

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is a suspenseful murder mystery in which every aspect is almost perfect. From the editing to the plot line Alfred Hitchcock does a perfect job at making a regularly uneventful scare a thing that will make you jump out of your seat with his amazing use of suspense. The movie Psycho is all about a mystery killer whose "identity" is revealed at the beginning of the action in the movie so you know whats coming and you just feel like shouting get out of there but he uses unrestricted narration so he can use suspense for a greater surprise effect. he uses alot of midshots in the movie so you can know whats going on in the full shot rather than just looking at facial expressions. The plot is set up by the beautiful deceiving main charecter who steals a sum of money and is on the run to her boyfriends house but she must stop at a rest stop for a night before she finishes the journey. As she talks to the owner of the hotel for a while she begins to seem a little bit sane but the hotel owner soon becomes insane with the mention of his mother saying that no one should insult such a woman and thats when you know things are going to go down. the use of low key lighting to shadow the killers face allows a window for the very shocking ending in which you will find yourself saying what in the hell just happened. the killer is usually shot with a low angle shot for them to show a certain power that they have over the victim. Hitch's use of the long take also allows a great amount of suspense to unfold as you are just at the edge of your seat until the shot is finished. The sound of the film always goes back to the opening score when ever something bad is about to happen so he hints at what is going on with making you guess when it is going to happen. The editing of the movie is flawless in every aspect, the camera never crosses the 180 degree axis line the shots are all similar in length and eye line matches are evident in important situations. The most important part in photography of the movie is always having a long shot of the hotel owners house which gives it a creepy feeling and makes you wonder what is in the house that is so important. In conclusion Psycho is an almost flawless movie and anyone who has seen it would agree that it was one of the greatest movies of all time because of the way it keeps you on the edge of your seat with the greatest suspense that I have ever seen in a movie and the plot line is amazing because it seems so real and it feels like something that twisted could actually happen.

3:10 to Yuma critique review

I read three critiques of 3:1o to Yuma which in two of them their was not a bad thing to be said both say actors capture the essence of the wild west which is suspense, action,and the boost of adrenaline any good gun fight should give you. Neither man showboats here, and it’s a thrill to watch them work. In this movie these two big time actors both do not try to take over the movie which gives a perfect perspective from each of the charecters point of view. The distribution of their acting ability creates a believable vision of the Wild West as everyone has invisioned it before. The two main charecters of this movie are Dan Evans(Christian Bale) a man who lost a leg in the Civil War, has come to the Arizona territory to try his luck at ranching and Ben Wade(Russell Crowe) the leader of a lawless gang which sticks up stagecoaches, robs banks, casually murders people and outguns any opposition. Through a series of you could say unfortunate events Dan finds himself in the middle of transporting Ben Wade which he volunteers for so that his family has a real shot to make a good life for themselves. Both Dan and Ben have elements in their characters that come under test in this adventure. Dan wants to have one final heroic adventure in which he can finally feel as he accomplished something in his lifetime as where Ben Wade holds up stagecoaches and robs banks just so everyone knows he is the best and make sure that everyone fears Ben Wade and his gang of quick drawing bandits.Until then, ‘‘3:10 to Yuma’’ is a tonic: a throwback expertly retrofitted with new parts. I happen to believe that 3:10 to Yuma is th greatest Western I have ever seen with the sus pense that it draws from all sorts of different places such as throughout the movie Ben Wade's gang is in pursuit of them from the moment he is captured and countless decisions made which cause the transporters all sorts of problems. The other review said that the newer remake of the movie subtracted suspense from the original and added 24 minutes of filler. The blog that also thinks of 3:10 to Yuma as a crappy remake and embarresment to the whole western genre said, Oddly enough, a week after seeing the new movie in a theater on a giant screen and the old one on DVD, it's the old one that lingers in my mind. I thought this movie captured everything a western should with great directing and acting.